Quotes About Community

I grew up in Nashville in a white suburb. We lived next to a Klan member. We didn't see hoods, but my dad knew that guy was a Grand Dragon.

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family in a decidedly Christian suburb of Waltham, Mass.

When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

I grew up in Louisiana - a little suburb right outside of New Orleans - and I wouldn't have it any other way!

I grew up in Palm Springs, California, which is a suburb like a desert town, and I love it.

I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing.

I grew up in Lake Orion, Mich. What was best about Lake Orion where, where we grew up was it was a suburb of Detroit but had a lot of open space around.

I grew up in New York City. We used to diss Long Island and Jersey. Every big city has its own suburb like that.

When I was growing up, I always felt a bit like I didn't quite fit in, a feeling that perhaps still lingers in the background to this very day. I was the small brown girl in the big white suburb.

I grew up in this little city called Brampton. It's pretty suburban - there's not a lot going on. In my neighbourhood, specifically, there weren't a lot of other kids so I would just spend a lot of time inside.

There was never a single murder in my neighbourhood; there was barely a robbery. It was so suburban, it was almost disappointing.

The fact is inner-city black districts are not the same as suburban Republican districts. That's a fact. And people need to go and learn about the whole country.

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban areas.

I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!

We lived a lovely, middle-class, suburban life in Philadelphia. And I really thought that the TV programs of the '50s, like 'Father Knows Best' and 'The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet' Nelson were documentaries filmed with hidden cameras in our neighborhood.

I come from a very straight and adjusted suburban background.

I'm a suburban mom. I grew up in Oakland County, Michigan.

My constituents include CU Buffs, ski bums, techies, artists, suburban soccer moms, and proud, hard-working Colorado families.

My mom was born in Jamaica and has always been around a community of black people, so she encouraged me to get out and act. My dad, on the other hand, is from suburban Massachusetts, so he had not been around a lot of black people.

Irvine, being a planned community, is really good shorthand, especially in a movie or book, for understanding suburban pressures.